GIMHAE, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Hydrogen fuel-cell buses made by a South Korean manufacturer will be deployed as intercity buses nationwide this year. The Ministry of Environment, joined by three metropolitan cities and provinces, will test drive a high-floor hydrogen-powered bus, to be released by Hyundai Motor Co. later this year for one intercity route, three [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean builder SK ecoplant Co. plans to develop a technology to directly produce hydrogen from organic waste resources under an industry, academia and research institute collaboration system. The company said Wednesday it will jointly carry out the state project “Future Hydrogen Original Technology Development” launched by the National [...]
Zurich, Switzerland, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Hitachi Energy today announces that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with H2 Green Steel to leverage electrification, digitalization, and hydrogen to support the decarbonization of the steel industry. H2 Green Steel, a Swedish industrial start-up, is on a mission to accelerate the global steel industry’s [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea H2 Business Summit, a hydrogen council established primarily by major companies such as Hyundai Motor, SK and POSCO, on Wednesday set up a fund to promote the hydrogen industry. The fund worth 500 billion won (US$383 million) will be established via investments from domestic member companies and [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has teamed up with South Korean and Czech hydrogen associations and private hydrogen-related enterprises in both countries to establish a hydrogen industrial foundation in the Czech Republic. The carmaker and its logistics unit Hyundai Glovis Co. on Tuesday (local time) signed a memorandum of understanding with [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., a major South Korean builder, said Thursday it had been selected as the main research and development institution in charge of the national project in the Ministry of Science and ICT’s carbon capture and utilization field. This project aims to optimize and demonstrate a [...]
LATHAM, N.Y., June 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, will build a 35-tons-per-day green hydrogen generation plant at Port of Antwerp-Bruges in the heart of Europe. Plug signed a 30-year concession agreement to build the plant at the Belgian port, the [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Chemical Corp., the petrochemical unit of South Korean conglomerate, said Thursday it will establish a joint venture with SK Gas Co., a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) importer and distributor, for power generation with by-product hydrogen and hydrogen-powered transportation. The joint venture will be established in the third quarter of this [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) — SK E&S Co., the energy unit of South Korean conglomerate SK Group, has teamed up with U.S-based hydrogen fuel cell maker Plug Power Inc. to supply clean, green hydrogen. SK Plug Hyverses, a joint venture between the two companies, said Tuesday it inked a deal with South Korea’s state-run [...]
LATHAM, N.Y., May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Plug Power Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUG), a leading provider of turnkey hydrogen solutions for the global green hydrogen economy, has been awarded an order to deliver a one gigawatt (GW) electrolyzer to hydrogen company H2 Energy Europe. Planned for a green hydrogen production complex in Denmark, this is the largest capacity electrolyzer [...]